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After taking the reins at Gucci almost a year ago, Alessandro Michele’s retro maximalist aesthetic (read: tiered ruffled dresses, floral suits, and lady bags furnished with throwback hardware) has been resonating with A-listers on and off the red carpet. Actress Dakota Johnson is an ardent fan of the Italian house, and stepped out onto the rainy sidewalks of New York earlier today in the brand’s heeled clogs.

By now you’re probably familiar with the name Olivia Palermo, a woman whose chic street style maneuvers have made her a fixture on the front row. Turns out, the 29-year-old New Yorker has designs for your closet, too: On February 8, she’ll debut a collaboration with Nordstrom’s in-house label Chelsea28, just in time for New York Fashion Week. “It was important to start with life pieces, as I call them,” says Palermo. “Taking a great navy wide-leg pant, for example, and being able to restyle it.”

When it comes to denim, there’s not a lot Jessica Alba hasn’t experimented with: stonewashed short shorts, jeans with the waistband cut off Mariah Carey style, classic 501s, Blossom-inspired overalls, colored jeans, boyfriend jeans, skinny jeans, distressed jeans. “Oh, girl! I have all of it,” she says. “I probably have two full racks of denim and each hanger is doubled up. It’s excessive. It’s next-level.” No wonder, then, that the actress and entrepreneur’s first foray into the world of fashion happens to be in the form of a collaboration with denim brand DL1961. “I wear so much of it,” Alba says. “And there’s nothing like finding the perfect pair of jeans.”

Tomorrow Copenhagen Fashion Week kicks off, and even if you’re not yet acquainted with some of the talents who’ll be sending forth their latest collections at CFW, there’s no doubt you’re familiar with Pernille Teisbaek. The stylist and street style favorite has come to epitomize a kind of 21st-century Danish cool that’s not full-on Scandi minimalism, but that boasts plenty of easy, elegant polish—and that’s launched a bevy of Tumblr fan sites to boot. To ring in the shows, we tapped Teisbaek to share some of her favorite hometown haunts. From shopping to snacking, whether you’re headed to the city to see the shows IRL or just in your daydreams, she’s got you covered.

Whether or not you signed that yearlong gym contract in 2019, there’s a good chance that by now, your fitness resolutions are beginning to fall by the wayside. Fortunately, there’s a simple way to get yourself back on track and give your routine the jolt it needs: by refreshing your gym bag with beauty essentials that not only better your workout, but also look good while doing it.

If there’s anything Leonardo DiCaprio loves more than a Citi Bike, it’s his vape. His trusty e-cigarette has accompanied him on yacht trips in St. Barth’s, while he scoped out the scene at Art Basel, and most recently served as his date at Saturday night’s SAG Awards. Now that Leo has taken his vape commitment to the next level, we’re confronted with a new etiquette question: Is it ever socially acceptable to vape indoors?

If there’s one fashion staple that is versatile enough to chicly, seamlessly go from day to night, boardroom to cocktails and even weekend brunch, it’s the knee-high (or over-the-knee) boot. And it’s cropped up on every A-lister from Emily Ratajkowski to Kourtney Kardashian to Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. However, no star has embraced the boot quite like model-of-the-moment Gigi Hadid. The 20-year-old stunner has sported her pair by Stuart Weitzman everywhere from the airport to post-show catch-ups with fellow runway regular Kendall Jenner, without missing a beat.

While you might know Björn Borg as one of the world’s greatest tennis players, Swedes also think of him in conjunction with skivvies. For years now he’s been sort of the Calvin Klein of Sweden, and his logoed underthings are fairly ubiquitous. The snow started just before I headed out to the label’s Stockholm Fashion Week presentation, and I was feeling pretty sorry for the models, thinking they’d be standing around in very little at all. But that was not the case. The brand teamed with British menswear designer Craig Green this season, as it begins to add athleisure to its offerings.

“It was always strange for my mother, because as a boy, I was never interested in toys or games,” says jewelry designer Petr Axenoff. “The most exciting thing was to visit palaces, or museums in St. Petersburg.” And those modern-day czarinas similarly obsessed with pre-Revolutionary opulence need look no further than the Instagram page of Axenoff Jewellery, where nostalgia doesn’t just glimmer, it gleams. There, you can find a silver tiara lined with blue topazes; coronet-shaped rings dotted with diamonds and rubies; and enamel-work in a technique that dates back to the 1760s called “Rostov finift,” with pieces painstakingly hand-painted to depict cherubs cavorting on a pearl-rimmed cocktail ring, or a pair of women’s eyes carefully fitted inside pyramid-shaped earrings surrounded by green agates. Russian architecture, baroque interiors, and oil portraits by the likes of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edwin Austin Abbey, cited as inspiration, are interspaced between the pieces to underline their place at the end of a long line of serious glitz.

Fashion Week diversity is typically a subject best explored during the postseason. Casts are analyzed, charts are made, numbers are crunched—and time and again the industry comes up short. Designers, casting directors, and agents all provide lip service regarding the importance of runways that mirror the multiculturalism of daily life, but when showtime rolls around, few actually showcase that level of inclusion. Though strides have been made—most notably, during Spring’s campaigns, where brands looked to unconventional muses, eschewing traditional ideas about gender, race, and body size—the catwalks have remained mostly unchanged. It’s time for some follow-through, fellas.